LEAD also offers a value-oriented, standalone PDF imaging toolkit with the LEADTOOLS PDF Pro SDK. This product includes everything developers need to read, write, view (as raster) and edit PDF files with advanced capabilities such as the extraction of text, hyperlinks, bookmarks and metadata as well as updating, splitting and merging pages from existing PDF documents. It excludes vector display and conversion, which is only available in the document and medical imaging product families.

The LEADTOOLS Document Imaging is the base SDK for other more advanced LEADTOOLS imaging products. These more advanced products include all of the imaging technology contained in the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging product and add additional advanced and specialized technology.